>>>>> "AL" == Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AL> It might be that the part file in question still is in your temporary AL> storage directory. I should have mentioned that I looked there, and it's not there. AL> Do you have "Write Part After Job" set in the job AL> definition? Yep. (though it's in the JobDefs referral) >> the disc is not full yet and mounting it shows about 3G in use: >> /dev/hda 2972194 2972194 0 100% /mnt/cdrom >> and the missing part was very small: >> FD Bytes Written: 228,657 (228.6 KB) >> SD Bytes Written: 231,716 (231.7 KB) AL> I did experience problems with small part files myself and think that, AL> for (some) DVD writers, a "session" has to have certain minimum size. No AL> hard facts, though, that's just what I observed quite a while ago. huh. that'd be odd. It should be easy to test too, cause 2 back-to-back incrementals should hit it. AL> My workaround (or rather the one I implemented for my customer) was to AL> set "Write Part after Job" to No for all jobs except the BackupCatalog AL> one. Like this, All normal jobs would have a good chance to get written AL> correctly, and only the Catalog backup was in danger of ending up corrupted. Interesting. I'll certainly think on that one. >> 2) what to do about it? Choices are, I think: >> 2a) invalidate the whole volume >> 2b) somehow tell bacula that just that part is missing and to rewrite >> just that part... AL> Yes, look for the part file in the spooling directory you set up for the AL> DVD storage device. Unfortunately, no go there... Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can duplicate the issue... -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
